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I was immediately skeptical, but then I looked around and found some articles claiming that as of 2013 computing in general accounted for fully ten percent of g
by 13thLetter 11y ago
I was immediately skeptical, but then I looked around and found some articles claiming that as of 2013 computing in general accounted for fully ten percent of global electricity usage. So maybe we should be putting some thought into this issue after all.
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- jerf 11y agoIt should be pointed out that we do in many places. Mobile has significant incentive to be efficient. Cloud has significant incentive to be efficient. Mobile efficiency creeps into a lot of other home tech because it's cheap to use that highly-scaled mobile technology now, because it's off-the-shelf. The worst is probably stuff headed for the home that is too big to use SOCs, like desktops and game consoles. But it's not as if the entire industry is oblivious to this issue... Performance-per-watt is an already-important metric, and it will only get more important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt
- Narishma 11y agoConsoles do use SoCs, mainly because they're cheaper than discrete processors. At least the current ones do. They're just not mobile SoCs.